ADEREMI'S NOTEBOOK

Dude, How can you tell (2)

Dude A: Dude B, I think we are approaching Africa
Dude B: Huh, how can you tell?
Dude A: Look…

via Muti

— Is Lagos still the capital of Nigeria? Google maps thinks/thought so. #

— Are Economists not boring? “Few mothers are thrilled to learn their daughter is dating an economist. They expect that their prospective son-in-law will be opinionated, boring and wrong” #

— Meet Jason McElwain, Get inspired! [via zach] (2)

— Meet the new Simon Cowell. I’m the talent scout, bring it on! #

London Underground renamed (0)

Imagine if the London Underground was renamed after multinational corporate sponsors. Some impressive ones; Google Street, Ladbrokes Grove and Seven Up Sisters.

Hang on! This idea could really work. With the 2012 Olympics coming, Gordon Brown probably needs about £250 million (a wild guess) per sponsor to authorise the name change for a particular station (with the contract expiring in 2013).

My consulting fee is only 0.01% of the first two sponsors’ transactions.

— How to write about Africa, “Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize…Your African characters may include naked warriors” (via MW) #

— Naijarita has selected its winners for the 2005 Nigerian Weblog Awards. 132 blogs in a country of only 120 million people, good eh! #

— Route79’s theory of relative transport states that people who ride London’s buses are more intelligent than those who ride the tube. #

— The pidgin edition of Psalms 23 is now available. You don prepare Egusi and Pounded yam make I chop. All mai enemies dey look waa waa. You rub me for head wit vaseline intensive lotion. mai cup na River Niger wey overflow hin bank. #